SSH-agent setting

[Loren M. Lang]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:23:27PM +0100, kilim wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:51:41AM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote:
> > >
> > > Why not use keychain and put it in the appropriate rc file (.bashrc,
> > > cshrc, etc.), then you'll be connected to the agent automatically.
> 
> My bad. 
> 
> Please disregard my previous email.
> 
> I apologise !
> 
> Your suggestion is great. 
> 
> What I didn't realise is that keychain is a great tool which resides
> in /usr/ports/security/keychain and it does this:
> 
> "allowing you to easily have one long-running ssh-agent process per
> system, rather than per login session."

Actually, it's simpler than that.  Just add the following lines to your
.profile:

export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/user.agent
ssh-add -L >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ge 2 ]; then
	ssh-agent -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

Then you'll just need to run ssh-add once after every reboot to re-add
the key, but the ssh-agent will be accessible from every terminal, X11
session, ssh login, etc. with your username.

> 
> as its web site states:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml
> 
> 
> Thank you Clayton !
> 
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